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Gregory Nagy, Homer's Text and Language
Acknowledgments and Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Text
1. The Quest for a Definitive Text of Homer: Evidence from the Homeric Scholia and Beyond 2. The Homeric Text and Problems of Multiformity 3. Editing the Homeric Text: West’s Iliad 4. Editing The Homeric Text: Different Methods, Ancient and Modern 5. Aristarchean Questions: Emerging Certainties about the Finality of Homer’s Text Part II. Language
6. The Name of Achilles: Questions of Etymology and “Folk-Etymology” 7. The Name of Apollo: Etymology and Essence 8. An Etymology for the Dactylic Hexameter 9. Ellipsis in Homeric Poetry Bibliography
Acknowledgments
I offer my warmest thanks to Ryan Hackney, Casey Dué, and Christopher Dadian, to whom I am grateful for all their help in editing the final version of my text. I am also very grateful to Joycelyn Peyton, who created the index. I dedicate this book to my students, who inspire my research.
Cover illustration: close-up from the Venetus A showing the first five verses of the Iliad.
Abbreviations
BA/BA2 = Best of the Achaeans = N 1979/1999 [with new Introduction]
Esametro = Fantuzzi and Pretagostini 1996
GM = Greek Mythology and Poetics = N 1990b
GMZ = Grafton, Most, and Zetzel 1985
HQ = Homeric Questions = N 1996b
HR = Homeric Responses = N 2003a
IC = Janko 1998a
MHV = Parry 1971
N + year = Nagy, G. + year
OEI = Blackburn et al. 1989
PH = Pindar’s Homer = N 1990a
PP = Poetry as Performance = N 1996a
PR = Plato’s Rhapsody and Homer’s Music = N 2002a
VMK = Viermännerkommentar ‘four-man commentary’